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So let's get wet. Take your roller here and start rolling it back and forward into the
paint. Now you're going to notice there's going to be a side which is not going to want
to get as painty as the other. Sometimes I mean it's really great to lift it up, kind
of go really deep and then come back over. Cause that'll help. And then I start, there
you go. Now you want the brush to be wet. At the same time, you don't want paint to
be dripping off it, which is why you usually, painting trays will have these grooves which
will help get a nice even, yet still thick coat on your painting roller. OK, next stop,
African Savannah. Take your roller and go up and down. And start making some V shapes.
See how I'm going up and down at first? But then I come back down and then look whoom,
I go over in a V shape. I go over in another V shape. This'll help spread out the paint
at your edges. Make sure to get a nice solid coat on it. As soon as you start seeing the
paint get a little thin, like see how that's getting thin over there? At that point, then
it's time to go back to our painting tray and get more paint and load up again. But
you want to make sure you get a nice thick coat on, especially for the first time. Because
if you get a situation where you see a lot of this after the paint's dried, it means
you've got to go over another coat, and that's not a whole lot of fun. I tend to want to
apply a nice thick first coat, half the time which then you can avoid having to put on
a second coat.